What does BLAPA actually do?
Well, lets see. They spend £2,500,000 of members funds waging a failed a futile campaign to bring "dignity and respect" to Ryanair pilots who've plainly found an adequate supply of those commodities elsewhere. They goad, threaten and cajole those that stand in their way. They maintain a final salary pension scheme for their own employees when even the Golden Balls of Hounslow no longer have one. They trouser membership fees with the ferocious sucking sound of a thousand atmospheres whilst coming to the aid of a precious few in any meaningful way. Oh, and in recent days, they've assisted those of a saggy, broader beam at their master's BA, to
redeploy squillions in pension fund assets to safer harbours, like rats off a sinking ship.
Their structure is decentralised and inherently weak, blame for failure is passed to the individual pilots of each company's CC, they have no industrial teeth, they are unaccountable, they have a string of ignominious failures that serve to highlight their true colours and prime directive in respect of BA that we're encouraged to ignore and yes, they're broke. Where do I sign? Good money after bad anyone?